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Second Hand Smoke Allowed To Continue
1,194 wordsTobacco has been used for enjoyment for thousands of years. Native Americans are believed to be the first to use tobacco. Over the years the use of tobacco has become so widespread that is can be found in nearly every country. The tobacco industries have provided a very harmful product to the public. The US Government should regulate the tobacco industry because tobacco is hazardous to the American public and because they have conducted their business practices in an unethical and immoral fashio...
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Second Hand Smoke People Who Smoke
1,600 wordsSenior Exhibition Draft # 2 Why do cigarettes remain a legal form of substance abuse, when scientific evidence gathered from around the world has proven how addictive and dangerous they are? Tobacco dependence is a global epidemic that affects more than one billion people worldwide. tobacco causes 3. 5 million deaths each year or about 10, 000 deaths each day. In addiction, it is estimated that passive smoke kills 50, 000 adults every year in the United States. http While it would not be practic...
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American Lung Association Food And Drug Administration
1,572 words... sed by various cities increases tenfold; and by 1989, 44 states had passed some form of smoking control legislation. Cigarettes still remain the second most heavily advertised product in the United States, behind automobiles. (All broadcast advertisment was previously banned in 1971) The Merican Medical Association is among the many institutions that have recommended a ban on all cigarettes advertisements and promotional activities. Approximately 80 - 90 - percent of regular smokers start at...
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Complete Philip Morris Marketing Analysis
5,212 words... or substitutes that would provide a healthier alternative. Philip Morris was the first company to take a step in the right direction by introducing Marlboro. The filtered cigarettes were believed to be healthier and reduce the chance of developing cancer. Since then, more companies have introduced their own version of a healthier cigarette. Tobacco companies introduced such innovations as light and ultra light cigarettes. Light cigarettes are made with less tar; ultra lights have almost no t...
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University Of California Tobacco Industry
471 wordsOn May 12, 1994, a package containing 4, 000 pages of secret internal tobacco industry documents arrived at the office of Professor Stanton Glantz at the University of California, San Francisco. The anonymous source of these "cigarette papers" was identified in the return address only as "Mr. Butts" -- presumably a reference to the Doonesbury cartoon character. These documents provide a shocking inside account of the activities of one tobacco company, Brown & Williamson, and its multinational pa...
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American Medical Association Cigarette Ads
850 wordsIn todays society the media has a great effect on what people buy. The media has been telling us what to buy since the beginning of the printing press. There is only one problem now; industry is trying to target certain groups that are more susceptible to buy their products. The most publicized of these big corporations are the people of the tobacco industry. What does one think of when asked; name a company that targets mostly underage kids? Most everyone would say the tobacco industry. They ha...
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Philip Morris Brand Loyalty
1,009 wordsproducts such as cigars, snuff, and chew are considered close substitutes to cigarettes. Cigar smoke is just taken into the mouth, but not inhaled like cigarettes. Snuff and chew do not even contain smoke, but are put on the skin for nicotine absorption Companies such as Imperial Tobacco, which produce a wide array of chew and snuff products, would be considered a company that provides substitutes to cigarettes. They would not fall in the cigarette industry itself. Situation Analysis Industry St...
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Effects Of Smoking Tobacco Companies
1,131 words... outwork Staff Miscellaneous: The tobacco industry: liable for its consumers 2000 - 07 - 30 The Tobacco Industry: Liable for it's Consumers? Should the tobacco industry be held liable for illness and death caused by smoking? Currently, the Federal government is looking into this in numerous court cases, scientific studies, and a never-ending battle between national health, and the big tobacco giants. But to make an educated opinion, both sides of the argument must be heard. We hear about it a...
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Telling The Truth Immanuel Kant
5,428 words... ngs. Three of the executives written testimonies discuss the proposed settlement the companies negotiated with the states' attorneys general. The details of this settlement are provided in the section that follows; however the principle issue in this posture is that it is strikingly different than the one used in the 1994 testimonies. Mr. Bible was the first chief executive called in the case, during the sixth week of testimony in the Warren E. Burger Federal Building. The following excerpts...
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Second Hand Smoke U S Government
1,982 wordsThe Tobacco Issue: Where the Responsibility Lies Political-Legal Issues: The legal and political issues surrounding the tobacco industry include whether or not tobacco companies should be held liable for tobacco-related deaths of smokers and those related to second-hand smoke, as well as whether or not elected officials should be accepting money from the tobacco industry in order to win elections. When deciding where the responsibility lies in the case of tobacco, the facts can be turned to favo...
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Consumption Of Alcohol Tobacco Industry
2,001 words... oppress. The government's suit is simply an act of extortion, hoping the cigarette companies will settle the case out of court as they did with the states' cases earlier. When the tobacco industry settled the cases with the states, despite a string of victories in the courts, the precedent was set that the industry would rather settle than fight. The government has targeted this industry in the hopes that the industry will again cave in from the outside pressure of public opinion. (Barr, 7)....
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Compensatory Damages Ethical Implications
1,955 words... nies have, which makes entry into the market extremely difficult. The level of sales needed to justify the enormous legal cost associated with this controversial market also makes market entry difficult for new companies. Although tobacco companies' profit margin is about double that of any other packaged good, the substantial costs of packaged goods on a national scale, along with the money it takes to acquire facilities for production and distribution, are major barriers to entry in the to...
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Second Hand Smoke United States Government
1,635 wordsCount 1: The executive officers and members of the boards of the multinational cigarette companies are indicted for conspiracy, or preparation of a common plan to execute the substantive crimes enumerated in counts 2, 3, 4. Count 2: These executives officers and members of the boards of the multinational cigarette companies are indicted for deliberate, willful violation of traditional norms, laws and rules of commerce and social contract. Count 3: These executive officers and members of the boar...
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National Rifle Association Children And Adolescents
1,172 wordsThe quest for political power. Rarely does a day pass where some form of power struggle does not occur within our government. The importance of the role of American government in the lives of its constituents has continuously grown in conjunction with a corresponding increase in governmental economic and social obligations. As the American state assumes greater power and responsibility in its actions, so must the citizens of the United States. With this increase in modern government participatio...
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Immanuel Kant Philip Morris
10,056 wordsHere is the tobacco case study for the marketing ethics discussion: LYING AND TOBACCO Senior Executives Caught in the Ethical Cross Hairs: Shareholder Loyalty or Social Responsibility? Case Development: Shelton S. Bridges, IV &# 038; Stephen M. Mounts You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. The Ninth Commandment Exodus 20: 16 INTRODUCTION For at least 3, 400 years? and probably much longer? scholars, philosophers, theologians, and others have pondered the question of truth. What ...
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Harmful Emissions Market Failure
994 wordsMarket Failure and the Tobacco Industry Any business or corporation in operation today is subject to market failure if they aren t already experiencing it. Market failure is the simple misallocation or the inefficiency of allocation of resources. This then results in waste or lost value that the company or business must endure and deal with. The source of market failure that I will be discussing are the external costs of producing tobacco products and imperfect information. The source of the ext...
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Tobacco Companies Cigarette Manufacturers
1,215 wordsI. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The United States is the world s second largest tobacco grower. Thus, tobacco is an important cash crop and the cigarette manufacturers play a very important role in the U. S economy Approximately 500, 000 Americans die every year as a direct result of smoking (1: 66). As the U. S. population becomes more health conscious, the number of smokers is decreasing every year. However, the tobacco industry has remained prosperous due to the continuing demand of millions of smok...
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Tobacco Companies Tobacco Industry
766 wordsThe tobacco companies have been getting a lot of bad reviews lately. They are being sued for millions of dollars for smokers Medicaid bills. I do not understand why they are being sued. The tobacco companies are only trying to make a living like everyone else. Warning labels are put on cigarette packs, and everyone knows about the hazards of smoking. People make the decision to smoke, so why should the tobacco companies take the blame? Tobacco use, along with the association of its danger, has b...
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Teenage Smoking Tobacco Industry
380 wordsOver the last five years, researchers have calculated that the teenage smoking rates have climbed tremendously. Graph number one shows a steady increase in the number of teenagers who smoke heavily. Graph number two shows how teenage smoking has made a comeback, and how the number of teen-agers smoke occasionally and who develop heavier habits has increased sharply in recent years. The tobacco industry and the critics have very different ideas why this rapid increase of teenage smoking is develo...
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Twenty Five Percent Centers For Disease Control
1,930 wordsForty-eight million Americans smoked in 1997 which is equivalent to about twenty-five percent of the nation s adult population, according to a U. S. government survey released in November, 1999 (Cooper n. p. ). According to Michael Ericsson, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s Office on Smoking and Health, the smoking rate among young adults ages 18 - 24 rose about four percent because of the increase in teen smoking seen over the next ten years. He said, As these teenag...
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